Personally, I had to install libglib1.2 and libgtk1.2-common in order to satisfy the libgtk1.2 dependencies.

The kernel problem was solved after completing this process.
I did have one other problem. The link to 'epsxe' that was located in '/usr/local/bin/epsxe' would not load the plugins or configurations. I ended up navigating to '/usr/local/games/epsxe/' where all my plugins and configurations are located and ran:
'sudo upx -d epsxe'
I then created a launcher pointing at '/usr/local/games/epsxe/epsxe' Now my configurations load and the emulator is playable once again.